You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an … - Doris Kearns Goodwin

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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I want to become president," or "I want to win the Pulitzer Prize. " If you love what you're doing, it's sort of a nice thing that happens toward the end of your career, or in the middle of your career. It is not the reason you were doing it. The reason you were doing it is because every day you wake up in the morning and you can't wait to learn something new.

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They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

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He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

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I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

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I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside. It always depended on other people making him feel good about himself, which meant that he was always beholden, continually needing to succeed. He could never stop. There was such a restlessness in him.

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Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

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